Educating African American Students And How Are the Children?

Focused on preparing educators to teach African American students, this straightforward and teacher-friendly text features a careful balance of published scholarship, a framework for culturally relevant and critical pedagogy, research-based case studies of model teachers, and tested culturally relevant practical strategies and actionable steps teachers can adopt. Its premise is that teachers who understand Black culture as an asset rather than a liability and utilize teaching techniques that have been shown to work can and do have specific positive impacts on the educational experiences of African American children.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 And how are the children? Seeing Strengths And Possibilities

Chapter 2 Liberty And Justice For All? Breaking the code

Chapter 3 Critical Literacy: Providing Mirrors And Windows For African American Students

Chapter 4 Loving the Language (African American Language)

Chapter 5 Culturally Relevant Teaching —Views From Classrooms Chapter 6 Families and Communities—Looking With Different Lenses

Chapter 7 Revisioning the Teaching of African American Students

Index

Gloria Swindler Boutte is a Professor at the University of South Carolina, USA.